involve

INVOLVE, verb transitive involv'. [Latin involvo; in and volvo, to roll, Eng. to wallow.] 1. To envelop; to cover with surrounding matter; as, to involve one in smoke or dust. 2. To envelop in any thing which exists on all sides; as, to involve in darkness or obscurity. 3. To imply; to comprise. To be and not to be at the same time, involves a contradiction. 4. To entwist; to join; to connect. He knows his end with mine involved. 5. To take in; to catch; to conjoin. The gathering number, as it moves along, INVOLVEs a vast involuntary throng. 6. To entangle. Let not our enemy involve the nation in war, nor our imprudence involve us in difficulty. 7. To plunge; to overwhelm. Extravagance often involves men in debt and distress. 8. To inwrap; to infold; to complicate or make intricate. Some involved their snaky folds. Florid, witty, involved discourses. 9. To blend; to mingle confusedly. 10. In algebra, to raise a quantity from the root to any assigned power; as a quantity involved to the third or fourth power.